Roll Top Desk

This is a good way to spend seven months of your spare time. This is built from Norm Abram’s New Yankee Workshop Plans. I only worked on it in my spare time. It was a gift for my wife and will be passed down to my youngest daughter and on down to my Granddaughter. It is all mortise and tenon and dovetail joints It is all raised panels solid red oak even the back. It was a very rewarding project but one that I would not want to repeat.

Just beautiful. A few years back, I purchased a nice rolltop in mahogany that belonged to a friend’s grandfather. I’ve been refinishing bit-by-bit over the course of the last year. The old shellac had really crazed over. I must say that despite the fact that rolltops just aren’t great for computers – I can’t help but have one in my home. Love to write and design furniture while seated amid all those beautiful cubbies in the gallery.Cheers,Ed

That is one of my favorite projects of Norms. It is one of those that i would LOVE to build, but don’t know what I’d do with it. It is also WAY, WAY, WAY above my skill level. This one is BEAUTIFUL. it is amazing.